Peter Buscemi

Peter Buscemi is a retired lawyer who practiced for nearly 40 years in Washington, DC. He spent most of his career as a litigation partner in the Washington office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP.

Mr. Buscemi received his law degree from Columbia in 1976. During his final year in law school, he served as Writing and Research Editor of the Columbia Law Review. Before law school, Mr. Buscemi received his undergraduate degree from Columbia in 1969, with majors in Government and Mathematics, and a master’s degree in Soviet Politics from Princeton in 1971.

Immediately after law school, Mr. Buscemi served for a year as a law clerk to Judge Carl McGowan of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Thereafter, from 1977 to 1981, he was an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the U.S. Department of Justice. During his tenure at the Justice Department, Mr. Buscemi served for five months, from May to October 1980, as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia.

After leaving the government in 1981, Mr. Buscemi practiced for five years in the Washington office of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. He joined Morgan Lewis in 1986, and became a partner in the firm the following year. His practice focused primarily on civil litigation, including the briefing and argument of cases in many federal and state appellate courts. He retired at the end of 2015.